specific taste cells can 'change' every 7-8 years. your receptivity of certain flavors can also drastically shift, and may become less distinct or even deteriorate over time (taste problems!)

i now consume fairly regularly an array of foods i once deemed totally nasty. approaching my 25th yr, i thought back on the extremely selective palette of my youth. this is a rough chronology of my taste exploration (these are specifically foods i hated as a kid, so i'm not listing things i'd never tried before)

no thanks:
mayonnaise or miracle whip.
ranch dressing
sour cream
potato salad
cottage cheese (all of the above fall in the same family for me)
beets
green olives
i stopped eating most meat circa fall 2002, although this wasn't really the result of direct taste change (i rarely if ever purchased it, then eventually stopped eating most kinds entirely) i still consume a bit of seafood now and again.

what foods have your 'buds come around on? ones you still hate or avoid?

Posted by todd at 09:16 PM.

I always hated 'creamy' things when I was younger, which included cheeses, mayonaise, mustards, cottage cheese, sour creaml though i was way yinto ice cream and yogurt.

i like most cheese now and everything but yellow mustard. cottage cheese grosses me out still and not too big of a sour cream fan.